arantxa Posted 13 January Share Posted 13 January I picked this up the fuse head has a cover that had a screw thread that fits perfectly did they come with these for safe dispatch or had sone one made this to display it the screw thread is perfect for Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peregrinvs Posted 13 January Share Posted 13 January If it is made of plastic then it would be the latter option. I’m not sure why anyone would bother though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arantxa Posted 13 January Author Share Posted 13 January Yes I thought that but it was such a perfect fit and those two holes on the bottom Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peregrinvs Posted 13 January Share Posted 13 January Someone’s home engineering project perhaps? Although my curiosity is now piqued as to what freshly manufactured No.101 fuzes were packaged in for transportation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dai Bach y Sowldiwr Posted 13 January Share Posted 13 January It's polyacrylate/Perspex/Plexiglas/acrylic or polycarbonate. Perspex wasn't put into useful producton until the 1920s and 30s. Fortunately there was enough Plexiglass around in the 1940s to build the windows for the Lancaster bomber. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikB Posted 14 January Share Posted 14 January ... and loads of other aircraft all over the industrialised world! But if there was any transfer- or injection moulded clear plastic about in ww1, it was nowhere near established or cheap enough to mass produce transit sleeves for bulk fuze distribution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaceman Posted 14 January Share Posted 14 January The fuzes used on British WW1 artillery shells would have been delivered from the factory inside tin cylinders to protect them from damp with the lids soldered on. They would not have needed the threads protecting in the way shown! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arantxa Posted 14 January Author Share Posted 14 January Does anyone have a picture of a tin as I’ve never seen one Thanks Yet they must have made millions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaceman Posted 16 January Share Posted 16 January I can't find a pic of a WW1 fuze cylinder but the WW2 fuze cylinder shown below would have been similar. Main problem was to ship them in such a way that damp could not get into the fuzes which, in the case of igniferous time fuzes, could affect the burning rate of the powder trains and therefore the time delay generated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arantxa Posted 20 January Author Share Posted 20 January Thanks. Very interesting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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